The study found that children with autism to take care of the pet dog can reduce stress levels

According to foreign media reports, the neuropsychological endocrinology magazine published a new Canadian study found that, let the children with autism and specially trained dogs to play and take care of a pet dog, you can use the small stress levels in patients with decreased obviously, behavior problems greatly improved.
 
The university of Montreal, the researchers found that specially trained dog can not only improve autistic children's anxiety symptoms obviously, but also help them to develop social skills. Many autistic children feel difficult in understanding others' emotions. As a result, the new study for children with autism and their families to provide a simple and feasible method of cure.
 
New study host Sonia Lu Peien, and colleagues measured in 42 children with autism in saliva cortisol levels. Cortisol is human body in times of stress, secretion of the hormone of representative, can be determined through saliva. The results found that children half an hour after waking up, peak cortisol, known as "cortisol response (CAR)" wake. After that, cortisol levels gradually decline.
 
During the trial, parents to fill in a questionnaire, in order to find out in children with behavior changes back and forth in contact with a pet dog. The results found that children with parents is a list of contacts before the dog has 33 kinds of behavioral problems, when the little guy with a pet dog, its behavior problems obviously reduced to 25. Lu Peien, says Dr In recent decades, the pet dog ease study of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) attention to gradually. However, so far, no research has measured the physiological effects of pet dogs to autism. New research shows that the specially trained dogs can obviously improve the autism behavior problems.